Hawaii Kai Plant Exchange

Bring a plant, take a plant. It's an informal exchange for gardeners, landscapers and all plant lovers. Every first Tuesday, we host a plant exchange at the Kaiser High School farmer's market. This coming week we expect to start with:

It's first Tuesday again and we'll be at the Kaiser High School farmer's market. Last year, we exchanged dozens of plants and also received donations for the school. Let's do it again in 2017. On February 7, we'll have the following plants to start off with, along with whatever you're bringing in for exchange. There's no fee: it's a community service and barter event. If you don't have one to give, you're still welcome to take a plant and leave a voluntary donation of your choosing.

Friends of Kaiser High School PTSA runs a farmer's market every Tuesday from 4-7pm in the school parking lot. The market has piping hot food from Olay's Thai food and true farmer's stand run by Kay and filled with in-season fruits and vegetables. Recently, the market added a local egg producer.

Every first Tuesday, we also run a plant exchange as a community service. I'm bringing my plants to exchange them with you. You bring yours, take one of mine or someone else's. Don't have any plants to give? Bring empty pots so they can be refilled for the next event. Don't have those either? Just take a plant and leave a voluntary donation to Kaiser's PTSA. It's that easy.

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Well, it looks like another great day for the plant exchange. I just picked up a number of new specimens. Today we'll have lots of Pele's Hair (Spanish Moss), a few Pink Dragonfruit cuttings, Java chestnut, Pandan and more. Bring a plant, take a plant, or just leave a voluntary donation to Kaiser High School.

Pink Dragonfruit

Biannual fruiting season, summer and winter. This cactus requires minimal care throughout the year. Edible fruit is easy to peel and attractive to serve.

Wow, time flies! It's once again almost time for the monthly plant exchange at Kaiser High School. Bring a plant, take a plant, or if something catches your fancy and you don't have an exchange, just leave a donation. Net proceeds go 100% to Friends of Kaiser PTSA, where they use it for teacher supplies, award donations and other academic endeavors.

This month, we'll be bringing our revolving stock of plants and adding pandan plants, which have finally matured enough to give away. Pandan is a great culinary plant, used extensively in Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino and Singaporean cooking. I mostly use it to flavor rice, adding a few leaves before steaming. If you're feeling fancy, you can make a nice pot of Nasi Lemak with little ado.

We also have a number of green ti leaf remaining, as well as kupukupu fern and true oregano.

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This site also posts the latest information on my pet project, a once a month plant swap that takes place every 1st Tuesday at Kaiser High School from 4-7pm.